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Hand Sewn Three- Tiered Maxi Skirt- Part 3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Here | Part 4

Update on the skirt!

In part 2, I cut the seam allowance that connects the waistband and the first tier too short, so I decided to cut a strip of fabric to sandwich them between to make it look nice and prevent fraying.

I cut it about an inch and a half in width and ironed down the folds that I wanted.

I MADE SURE the iron was on the synthetic setting! No more melted fabrics here!

I first folded it in half, ironed that down and then folded the ends to meet in the middle on that fold.

Then I ironed that middle fold once more so it stayed. I ended up with a significantly thinner strip like this.

Here I'm just showing the length comparison. I cut it a bit longer than the waistband so I had extra to work with.

I cut the seams down again so they looked less jacked and would fit between the strip.

Then I pinned it down. This part was surprisingly easy!

I sewed it down using a running stitch and now I have a nice, clean if a little bulky seam!

Next update is the sewing of the second tier of the skirt!

Hand Sewn Three-Tiered Maxi Skirt- Part 2

Part 1 | Here | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

So this took so much longer than expected because Mistakes started happening 🥲

So, I finished sewing the waistband and it was perfect! Then I started with the two tier-one panels next.

I drew on the seam allowance to use as guidelines because I can't sew straight to save my life.

I sewed the two panels together to make one long panel and I tried to iron the seam allowance to make it easier to fold.

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Unfortunately, my fabric is polyester and my iron was on the cotton setting. It got shrunk and burned and I couldn't salvage it.

Thankfully, I was able to buy more fabric after work the next day! I cut out the tier-one panels again and securely pinned down the seams so I could sew them. I folded them in half and sewed them to each other with a sitch I don't know the name of, but kinda looks like a blanket stitch at first glance.

Here comes the incredibly hard part: pinning the tier to the waistband.

I confused myself for a while and I wasn't sure which side I was supposed to pin it on 🥲 It took me two days to figure out 🥲🥲🥲

I also had trouble lining everything up and kept pinning the tier too far away from the stitching of the waistband. I finally figured it all out though and got to sewing.

I sewed right next to the stitching of the waistband so it looks flush. That's two, more or less neat rows of running back stitches!

Here's the other side, showing the gathering.

Here's how perfect the front looks! You can't tell that I struggled with this at all!

And here's the seam allowance that joins the two panels again. I thought it would look better smaller, so I undid the stitches, cut the seam allowance in half, folded it in half and sewed it all together again.

I tried to do the same with the seam allowance between the waistband and tier, but... 😬😬😬🫣🫣🫣

I cut them a bit too short... among other things. Instead, I'm going to cut a strip of fabric and sandwich the seam allowance between it.

It was a good thing after all that I had to buy that extra fabric!

Jazz x Jason Ghost Zone Wedding- DP x DC Worlds Collide Fan Zine Contribution

My piece for the @dpxdc-worldscollide zine!

This was thee most challenging piece I've worked on for the year (2024) but it was worth it! This was my first time participating in a fandom zine and I'm excited to be a part of it!

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Please check out all of the amazing art and fiction from the other artists and writers. There's so much passion and skill in this fandom!

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Worlds Collide FanZine

The time is finally here! cover art is created by the amazing @finemeal Thank you to everyone who was involved in this project for all yo

Hand Sewn Three- Tiered Maxi Skirt- Part 1

Here | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Heyo! I'm back with a new sewing project and this one will (hopefully) be a garment that I plan to wear often.

I'm handsewing it, again because I don't really know how to handle a modern sewing machine and because I want the satisfaction that completing this will bring me.

It's also an easy project to start off with!

I'm making one of these!

A three-tiered maxi skirt!

I've been wanting one for a while and decided to get some fabric and make one.

I looked up some tutorials on YouTube, figured out the math

and drew my final pattern onto brown paper.

I have a waist band, which is the length of my hips. It was going to be a wide band at first, but I bought thinner elastic because I had a brain fart. You'll see in a few that I had to significantly shrink the width.

For tiers 1 and 2, I chopped the measurements in half and for tier 3 which is suuuupppper long, I had to quarter the measurement to fit it on the paper.

I had juuuuuusssst enough fabric to get all my pieces:

-1 piece for the waist band

-2 pieces for tier 1

-2 pieces for tier 2

-4 pieces for tier 3

I'm 5"1' and on the smaller side overall. I got three yards of fabric. I suggest you double that if you're taller and/or wider.

This is how thin my waist band will now be. The elastic is about 3/4 inch. I originally made this waist band to be about 2 inches and I had to cut off the seam allowance from that. I still have a generous amount left just in case I may need to widen it (hopefully not!)

I accidentally started sewing this like a left-hander, so when the thread is done, I'll start on the other side so I can finish this faster 😆

A message for young women in these perilous times!

Daily Doodles- Day 202- 04/11/24

A dollface inspired by Alien Moe's creepy-cute creations. This one's more 'cute' inspired. If I could sculpt like her, I would totally make this.

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Daily Doodles- Day 201- 04/11/24

A doodle based on a story idea about a girl who can see generational curses. The curses appear as snakes around people's necks and she and her family members have this big, fat, long snake wrapped around theirs. It's big, long, old and refuses to let go and she's going to be the one to break it.

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Daily Doodles- Day 200- 03/11/24

Day 200! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 2/3 of the way there!

I decided to do a full flower and introduced some more coloured pencil.

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Daily Doodles- Day 199- 02/11/24

I tried to do one of those flowy drawings, but my lines just wouldn't come out all effortlessly flowy. You can see that I struggled.

It's still a great piece though!

I also introduced some coloured pencil to spice it up a bit.

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Daily Doodles- Day 198- 01/11/24

I wanted to try something different, so I went wild!

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Daily Doodles- Day 197- 29/10/24

The second pencil piece. It reminds me of the seaweed you would see in cartoons of under the sea.

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Daily Doodles- Day196- 28/10/24

I was browsing Pinterest and I found this beautiful pen drawing WIP by visothkakvei. I was particularly interested in the flower and decided to doodle my own version in pencil.

Well, the doodle turned into a fully rendered piece and I loved it so much that I went on to make more pencil artworks and I'm turning them into a sticker set to sell in my shop and at art markets next year!

It was a great art week!

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"SAFETY FIRST" - EVERY WOMAN & PARENT MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO!! [WITH TEAC...

Daily Doodles- Day 195- 27/10/24

Three preppy girls in my cartoony style!

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Daily Doodles- Day 194- 26/10/24

A mushroom! On the page I drew this, were other mushrooms from earlier in the week, so I completed that page with one more.

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Daily Doodles- Day 193- 26/10/24

Another one of my girls! I draw them when I don't have any ideas. They're embedded in my muscle memory.

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Daily Doodles- Day 192- 24/10/24

Another one of my nature clusters, but in the shape of a heart! I quite like this one and may turn it into a sticker design!

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Daily Doodles- Day 191- 23/10/24

I saw a whimsical and creepy-cute drawing of a swamp girl, so I drew my own swamp girl. Her hair was my favourite part, of course.

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Daily Doodles- Day 190- 22/10/24

nature pattern hand! I plan to make this into a sticker soon! (not this drawing specifically, but the idea)

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Daily Doodles- Day 189- 21/10/24

A blob girl! I was inspired by my recent red blood cell design. This one's not a cell, just a blob. I need to do research into the other blood cells before I start drawing them.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

Daily Doodles- Day 188- 20/10/24

Still watching Cells at Work and it reminded me of an idea I had back in the day. It was about drawing my own versions of the cells, but as eldritch type creatures.

My art leans more cutesy these days, I just rolled with it. This is a version of a red blood cell! She holds oxygen and/or CO2 in her 'hat' and 'skirt'.

These are other red blood cells with different 'outfits'.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

Daily Doodles- Day 187- 19/10/24

I started watching Cells at Work because I'm currently going through a chronic illness flare-up caused by my immune system being too jumpy (I'm good though) and it had me thinking about all the immune system art that I want to make and all the research I want to do and I decided to draw a red blood cell OC!

Currently on episode 4! It's such a good anime!

The tag for this is #agdoodles

Daily Doodles- Day 186- 18/10/24

Another curly girl! She's one of my tiniest doodles!

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Daily Doodles- Day 185- 18/10/24

Kinda geometric hair!

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Daily Doodles- Day 184- 18/10/24

Classic Victorian goth girl!

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Daily Doodles- Day 183- 18/10/24

Curly Girly in a striped shirt!

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Daily Doodles- Day 182- 18/10/24

This week was a rough one and I was tired, so I just did a simple doodle of a girl with her hair blowing in the wind.

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Daily Doodles- Day 181- 15/10/24

A girl with pattern hair! Inspired by some fun pencil art I did back in the day.

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Daily Doodles- Day 180- 15/10/24

Christians are always talking about God's Love and what God can do for us, but rarely about Repentance and how it's one of the things that we can do for God.

I didn't even know what exactly repentance was until last year and it's not just about feeling bad about what you did. You also have to change your ways and commit to that change.

It's difficult.

Do some more research into what repentance really is for yourself, and as always take your questions back to God.

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Daily Doodles- Day 177- 09/10/24

Corable Whistlemel! She's Artimax's son's soon-to-be wife!

I'm contemplating making her some sort of metal or woodworker. She studies under her father, so it's a family business this.

I want her to be cute and girly with some roughness to her. I drew her head too big here though. She's not gonna be big-headed!

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